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Slovakia is stopping emergency electricity deliveries to Ukraine, Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced. This comes ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.  He says the decision is a response to the suspension of Russian oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline. The measure takes effect onContinue Reading

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Diplomacy continues despite the significant United States military build-up., Diplomacy continues despite the significant United States military build-up. More talks are planned for Thursday between Iran and the United States, which is mobilising its largest military force since the invasion of Iraq more than two decades ago. Amid mixed messagesContinue Reading

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At the BAFTA Film Awards, a guest with Tourette syndrome involuntarily shouted a racial slur during the BBC’s broadcast., NewsFeed At the BAFTA Film Awards, a guest with Tourette syndrome involuntarily shouted a racial slur during the BBC’s tape-delayed broadcast, prompting apologies after it aired unedited. The BBC did cutContinue Reading

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More than 40 million people are waking up under blizzard warnings on Monday as a powerful winter storm moves up the East Coast. Travel bans, school closures and thousands of flight cancellations are already in effect from the Mid-Atlantic through southern New England. Snow began as rain in some areasContinue Reading

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Silicon Valley’s move-fast-and-break-things ethos has collided with medicine’s slow and restrained, follow-the-evidence philosophy.  The reverberations were swift and deep. In its wake: a health care system flooded with new artificial intelligence tools. Imaging algorithms flag subtle abnormalities on mammograms and CT scans. Predictive models forecast no-shows and streamline hospital schedules.Continue Reading

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Former UK Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson was arrested amid revelations over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein., Peter Mandelson arrested amid Epstein files fallout NewsFeed Former UK Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson was arrested by London police amid an investigation into “misconduct in public office” stemming from revelationsContinue Reading

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It is common to talk about a tradeoff between the economy and the environment, the idea being that protecting and cleaning up the environment cost money that could otherwise be spent on consumption or investment. It’s a bit simplistic to make a sharp distinction, since not dealing with the environmentContinue Reading

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At the Munich Security Conference earlier this month, prospective standard bearers for the left and right flanks of mainstream U.S. politics offered dramatically different narrative accounts of the postwar period of American hegemony. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., looking to establish a foreign policy vision ahead of a potential presidential run inContinue Reading